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Topic: Another G. Dead Keyboardist dies |
David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 3 Jun 2006 8:58 am |
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Now it's Vince Welnick, age 55
the last player in the full, Garcia, version of the band.
Bringing the number to 4
Pigpen, Mydland, Godchaux and now Welnick.
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2006 10:40 am
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| Hmmmm...... |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 3 Jun 2006 10:59 am
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| . [This message was edited by Pete Finney on 03 June 2006 at 12:53 PM.] |
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Brad Sarno
From:
St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2006 6:06 pm
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This was really strange. My wife got a myspace message from Vince just days ago as he was commenting on her music. Then another player also contacted her site and said he'd be here in St. Louis in a couple of weeks for the show with Vince. Vince died that day. We'd never had any contact with him other than seeing him play with the Dead in the early '90s. RIP Vince.
Brad
[This message was edited by Brad Sarno on 03 June 2006 at 07:09 PM.] |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 3 Jun 2006 9:13 pm
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Our drummer was on the road with Vince last year - he was driving all over the east coast to get back for our gigs, and then racing back.
Myself, I'm more familiar with his work with The Tubes back when.
RIP, Vince. |
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Mark Lind-Hanson
From:
Menlo Park, California, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2006 8:22 am
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| I'm curious as to why they are saying it appears to be suicide. |
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Mickey McGee
From:
Phoenix,Az
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Posted 5 Jun 2006 8:32 pm
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| This is sad news for me i grew up with Vince here in the Phoenix area playing in local bands in high school and on to Calif. where he(Vince) hit the big time-lived one year in S.F. and opened a lot of shows for the tubes-he will be missed.R.I.P. Vince. |
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Chris Forbes
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Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2006 2:48 am
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| I'm guessing Bruce Hornsby is sweating right about now. Isn't he the last one alive? |
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Brad Sarno
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St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2006 6:11 am
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Man, I'd be scared to be either a Dead keyboardist or a Spinal Tap drummer....
Bruce Hornsby and Tom Constanten, I believe, are the two remaining Dead keyboardists.
Brad
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Chris Forbes
From:
Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2006 9:34 am
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| Thanks Brad, I had forgotten about Tom. |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 6 Jun 2006 11:06 am
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Maybe TC and Bruce are exempt from this weirdness.
TC was only with the band a short time, and Bruce was never really an "official" member, more of a sometime keyboardist.
I think Bruce would have liked to become full-fledged, but I recall reading that he couldn't get past the lifestyle of some of the Dead "family" members, Garcia being one of them.
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Mark
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Mark Lind-Hanson
From:
Menlo Park, California, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2006 11:03 am
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Being someone whose phone began ringing off the hook when B. Mydland died, I have to say this is a disturbing event as well.
I have been removed from the GD world for the last five years or so, for personal reasons,
though I had a close relationship with TC for about seven-eight years I know that, things like this make a fellow nervous, but you have to go on regardless. TOm says VInce was a "soldier of music" and that's as fair to say about Tom too- who is planning to take up the tour Vince recently planned but - seemingly, didn't wish to continue with.
K. Godchaux's passing, however, affected me more than either of the folks above, as there were mutual friends in the picture, and most of them (like me) weren't in on all the negativity, and the bad drugs, and all that went with Keith's self-destruction within the band.
But it appears that, from what I make of it, the net chatter anyway, some people are placing the "blame" for Vince's death on the
heedlessness, and maybe carelessness, of the
"Main Four" remaining members.
I don;t wish to speculate on that, even though I had plenty of reasons enough to walk away from the scene when I did. One of which was, it just wasn't fun any more, "now that everyone had to be" a Dead Head.
But I can say, that, from all I've seen of the GD world, there is one level where all is fine and groovy, and life goes on pretty much as it ever does, and there is another where all the deep dark secrets of the soul are served up. It just makes me sad he didn't, or couldn't, survive all of that, better.
Hamza El Din recently passed away also, and
that's a loss that hurts me almost worse, really, since there really CAN be no replacement for what he meant to, and brought to, World Music.
You just gotta keep on keeping on and keep your focus no matter what comes your way in this world. |
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